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organic

organic

4 3.2
Food and products from farms that do not use chemical pesticides or artificial additives
  • noun
  • /ɔrˈɡænɪk/
translation icon : producto orgánico (América Latina)
  • We just got some organic cold pressed coconut oil.

Examples

  • Next, you want to get some organic coconut chips.

  • The number one soda drink in Scotland is this delicious organic natural drink.

  • And they compared it to organic meat products.

  • This is an organic slow release feed.

  • We like our meat organic, just as God intended.

  • I could only offer her eating organic as an alternative.

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  • Find out why demanding organic is an important step toward protecting our health and healing our planet.

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  • I love spicy organic white truffle potato chips.

  • She is the woman who owns the world's smallest organic urban certified seed company.

  • Many shoppers prefer to buy organic food because it is free from harmful chemicals.

Synonyms

natural
vsorganic
1.0

Not made or changed by people, coming from nature like sunlight

means specifically items produced without synthetic chemicals or additives
ital
vsorganic
  • Jargon
1 9.9

About natural, pure food and ways of living without artificial ingredients, part of Rastafarian culture

focuses on farming methods avoiding synthetic chemicals rather than cultural values
organical
vsorganic
  • Archaic
7.1

Grown or made without artificial chemicals, often for food

is the common modern term rather than the variant form

Antonyms

267 3.6

Made by people rather than by nature, often as a copy of something natural

Compounds

organic compound
  • Specialized
7 3.7

A chemical that contains carbon and usually hydrogen, often with oxygen or nitrogen

organic chemistry
  • Specialized
5 3.7

The study of carbon compounds and how they react

Fruit grown without chemical pesticides or artificial fertilizers

Material from plants or animals that people add to soil to help plants grow

organic law
  • Formal
1 7.9

A basic law like a constitution that sets the main rules and structure of a government

A natural set of actions that happen inside living things, like breathing or digestion

organic disorder
  • Specialized
1 5.1

Physical changes in an organ or part of the body cause a health problem

The whole physical body of a living thing like a person or plant

organic evolution
  • Specialized
1 4.7

Living things change slowly over many years to form new species

Temporary state of confusion and disorientation caused by short-term brain damage from infection, injury or drugs

A brain problem caused by injury or disease that harms thinking and memory

A very thin screen or light that makes light when electricity flows through special plastic materials

4.8

A scientific idea that living things slowly change and share common ancestors

How Natural

natural
1.0
organic
4 3.2
conventional
175 2.8
processed
2.9

Surface Forms

organic singular
organics plural

Morphology

organic = organic (transparent) = organ + ic

This noun is a standard zero-derived use of the adjective 'organic' for foods or products made without artificial chemicals.

Etymology

The noun organic is short for food or products that come from living sources and uses the root organ, meaning a living 'part'. So organic items are those produced without artificial chemicals, like fruits and vegetables grown naturally.